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Awards

• Senior Member, ACM, 2024.
• Best Paper Award Runner-Up, Blue Sky Vision Track, SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, 2024.
• Best Paper Award (1/189), ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, 2023.
• Senior Member, IEEE, 2021.
• NSF CISE Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) Award, 2019.
• Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2015.

External Research Grants

1. National Science Foundation
   • Title: Elements: A GeoAI Toolset for Identifying Locations and Drivers of Pond Collapse in Salt Marshes from High-Resolution Earth Imagery
   • Program: Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC)
   • Amount: My share: $400K ($600K in total)
   • Period: 10/01/2024 - 09/30/2027.
   • Role: Lead PI (with Co-PI Dr. Alberto Canestrelli at UF ESSIE)
2. National Science Foundation
   • Title: Collaborative Research: OAC Core: Learning AI Surrogate of Large-Scale Spatiotemporal Simulations for Coastal Circulation
   • Program: Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC)
   • Amount: UF share: $400K ($600K in total)
   • Period: 10/01/2024 - 09/30/2027.
   • Role: Lead PI (with Site PI Dr. Jie Ren at William & Mary and Senior Personel Dr. Maitane Olabarrieta from Coastal Engineering at UF)
3. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
   • Title: AI for Storm Surge and Total Water Level Prediction under Uncertainty
   • Program: Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association (SECOORA)
   • Amount: $175K in total
   • Period: 07/01/2025 - 06/30/2026.
   • Role: Co-PI (with PI Dr. Maitane Olabarrieta)
4. FL Department of Environment Protection
   • Title: Water Quality & Economic Impact Monitoring Network for Peace River Basin and Greater Charlotte Harbor Watershed
   • Amount: My share: $101K ($5.1M in total)
   • Period: 5/01/2022 - 4/30/2023.
   • Role: Co-PI (PI Dr. Christine Angelini)
5. National Science Foundation
   • Title: Collaborative Research: OAC CORE: Large-Scale Spatial Machine Learning for 3D Surface Topology in Hydrological Applications
   • Program: Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC)
   • Amount: My share: $261,161 ($500K in total) + $16K REU
   • Period: 10/01/2021 - 09/30/2026.
   • Role: Lead PI (with UAB PI Dr. Da Yan)
6. National Science Foundation
   • Title: III: Small: Spatial Deep Learning from Imperfect Volunteered Geographic Information
   • Program: Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS)
   • Amount: $500K + $36K REU
   • Period: 10/1/2020 - 11/30/2026.
   • Role: Sole PI
7. Microsoft
   • Title: Spatial Deep Learning for NHD Refinement
   • Program: Microsoft AI for Earth Grant
   • Amount: in-kind support, $15,000 Azure Cloud Credits
   • Period: 07/25/2021 - 07/24/2022
   • Role: Sole PI
8. Camgian Microsystems Inc.
   • Title: Artificial Intelligence Enabled Sensor Network
   • Amount: $600K in total (my share: $156K)
   • Period: 4/1/2021 - 8/15/2021
   • Role: Former Co-PI (PI Dr. Kenny Ricks)
9. NOAA National Water Center
   • Title: Snow and Soil Moisture Research
   • Program: Subawarded through the CISESS Program at the University of Maryland
   • Amount: $5,552,781 in total, My share: $277,639
   • Period: 7/1/2020 - 6/30/2021.
   • Role: Co-PI (PI Dr. Prasad Gogineni)
10. NOAA National Water Center
    • Title: Deployment of Geographical Hidden Markov Tree in Rapid Flood Inundation Mapping: Interactive Tool Development
    • Program: Subawarded through the CISESS Program at the University of Maryland
    • Amount: $142K
    • Period: 7/1/2020 - 8/30/2023.
    • Role: Sole PI
11. National Science Foundation
    • Title: SCC-PG: Planning Live, Sustainable Community Asset Mapping for a Dementia e-Friendly Alabama
    • Program: Smart & Connected Communities
    • Amount: $150K in total, My share: $45K
    • Period: 10/1/2020 - 9/31/2023.
    • Role: Co-PI (PI: Dr. Nicole Ruggiano)
12. US Geological Survey
    • Title: Integrating Geographical Hidden Markov Tree with the FIST Model for Flood Inundation Mapping
    • Amount: $89,539
    • Period: 5/1/2020 - 4/30/2021.
    • Role: Sole PI
13. National Science Foundation
    • Title: CRII: III: Disciplinary Knowledge Guided Big Spatial Structured Models for Geoscience Applications
    • Program: Research Initiation Initiative (CRII)
    • Amount: $191K
    • Period: 08/01/2019 - 12/31/2022.
    • Role: Sole PI
14. Camgian Microsystems Inc.
    • Title: Deep Learning for Object Detection
    • Amount: $600K in total (my share: $160K)
    • Period: 10/15/2019 - 12/30/2020
    • Role: Co-PI (PI Dr. Kenny Ricks)
15. University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
    • Title: Center for Remote Sensing of Snow and Soil Moisture Measurements
    • Amount: $10M in total, My share: $500K
    • Period: 06/01/2018 - 05/31/2020.
    • Role: Co-PI (PI Dr. Prasad Gogineni)
16. Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE)
    • Title: Deep Spatial Structured Learning for Scientific Applications,
    • Program: Startup Allocation
    • Amount: in-kind support, 1600 GPU hours on PSC Bridges AI nodes (estimated value: $1,934.40)
    • Period: 5/9/2020 - 11/8/2021
    • Role: Sole PI
17. NVIDIA
    • Title: Utilizing GPUs in Spatial Big Data Classification for Flood Mapping
    • Program: NVIDIA GPU Research Grant
    • Amount: in-kind support, gift NVIDIA P6000 GPU
    • Period: 2/1/2018 - 1/31/2019
    • Role: Sole PI